Several companies have looked at licensing it, but all have rejected it after seeing it. That said, even if they had followed the manga better, and not gone over board on the abuse, it still would have been bad. Some of the worst acting i’ve ever seen

Anime News Network reported on the movie last year. Here is the news article link.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-10-10/live-action-films-planned-from-manga-creators-stories

Given the content of the manga, an Adult Content rating is to be expected. It would be interesting to see how this was adopted as a movie.

The official movie website is: http://www.sundome.jp/

I find relationships where the exploited turn around and secretly exploit the exploiter to be the constructs of fiction. These stories read like the revenge fantasies of the powerless.

I guess we will have to agree to disagree about how to interpret Hideo’s and Kurumi’s relationship and on the psychological makeup of Hideo.

I appreciate you sharing your thoughts and interpretation of the book.

The way I see it, Hideo avoided a lot of girls because of the shallowness, or else the image of shadowness due to a lack of appreciation for fads. You could call it anti-social. Even though he says he’s waiting for that moment, we can tell how stunned he is by Kurumi via his emphasis on how she somehow is the only person to play on any of his weaknesses, let alone all of them at once.

And if you put it that way, I suppose on a deeper level that’s sort of what they have, but it’s not literal “yet”.

Maybe I’m just trying to justify Kurumi’s case, but she can’t be all that bad.

I re-read an old work of mine about a person with Hideo’s persona, but totally different circumstances. He meets this girl whom he is physically attracted to, and this is what starts the exchange. In the end, she starts taking advantage of him, in a manner not unlike what Kurumi does.

But she doesn’t actually fall in love with him until he takes advantage of her urge to take advantage of him, which is one of the reasons I mentioned it before, now that I think of it. It’s the thrill of not knowing you’ve been exploited in the process of exploiting another person, and because of the complexity of what she’s looking for, the reader finds a motivation for looking into the story.

Maybe it’s the same with Hideo, y’know?

It’s not hard to figure out Hideo’s obsession. He has no self-esteem and Kurumi is the first girl to every pay serious attention to him. That’s a pretty classic formula.

As for the S&M component, we’re not talking the ‘suburban studded leather in the boudoir’ variety here. This is the more classic and deeper form of S&M where you have two people engaged in a slave-master relationship. Trust me, the Marquis de Sade would be very proud of the work Kurumi is doing in this book.

What do you people think are the underlying motives for Hideo’s obsession with Kurumi? Think about it as you read this series. It was a prevalent question for me the moment she gave him the first favor.

But in all honesty you people have to kind of go easy on her. In the first volume she sounded almost melancholy (I play manga out like an episode in my head, hence why I read them about a half hour per two segments, varying on the title). As for S&M, I think Hideo would be lucky enough to get a make-out frame anytime soon, although I haven’t read the 3rd or 4th so I don’t really know.

I can safely say that there is little to no form of S&M in the first two volumes. Now, if you were to consider it extreme fetishism in the most general form, I’d agree with you, but this is just my opinion.

Tiamat, the man who takes advantage of the woman’s urge to take advantage of him is the man who robs the woman of that power. Sadly, I am not one of those men.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks their relationship won’t work out.

But lets face it, the story is as warped as they come hehe. I mean we have an ex club president with a butt fetish and homosexual undertones, we have the weird alien guy, and the big boobed girl whos practiclay a prostitue demanding money from anyone and everyone for looking at her. When you look at the group as a whole, Hideo and Kurumi seem to be about the most sane, which is really freaky hehe

I think in the end though, they’ll end up apart, probably with her moving to a new school or city. It’s just the feeling i got from the 2 vols, that they wont end up together

If Hideo were a more mature, well-balanced person then I wouldn’t have a problem with the relationship. Because of Hideo’s self-esteem issues and his gross misunderstanding of the nature of love, I see this as abuse. Kurumi knows Hideo’s problems and takes advantage of them.

I don’t have a problem with two consenting adults engaging in an S&M relationship. As long as both are mature enough to understanding what they’re getting into.

I too can’t wait for the Kurumi’s secret to be reviewed. Hopefully, volume three will bring some light on her past and her motivations.

Looking at it, i wouldn’t call it abuse, since both parties are willing, i’d say it’s more an extreme form of S&M.

And you have to admit, it makes a change to have the girl in control, rather than the other way around. I’m interested in what her hidden secret is, and what’ll happen next.

though i have to admit te end of volume two made me a bit edgy, if he was pushed, that’ll be a bit to much for me, but if he fell on his own…i dunno, depends what happens in volume three.

Thank you for the kind words. I’m not sure I’m willing to claim that I’m either heathly or normal. I can see the appeal of Kurumi. She definitely is the femme fatale vibe going for her.

I just saw the review by Tiamat’s Discipline and he/she likes the book and doesn’t have any of objections I do to their relationship. You can see the review here: http://www.tiamatsreviews.com/?p=1036

So you’re not along in your reaction to the series.

Your reviews of this title are intelligent and well-written, but worlds away from my own reaction. Not to put too fine a point on it, I find the dynamic between Kurumi and Hideo highly erotic, and I’d trade places with him in a heartbeat (allowing for a little comedic exaggeration, that is — no, I wouldn’t want to be manipulated into getting my arm broken, as happened to Hideo in volume one). It’s rather fascinating to read how repulsed you are by what I find to be a thoroughly enviable relationship, though I’m sure yours is the more “normal” and “healthy” response.

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